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Why Trump Soars - Op-Ed Column by David Brooks

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 22:14:33 -0400

Why Trump Soars - Op-Ed Column by David Brooks

HMC Club Festival!

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 16:50:00 -0400

The 1st annual Club Festival is today!

Come stop by the MBA booth to make your very own business cards! Follow examples or be creative. Take home a sheet of business cards and get started with professional networking!

Can China Innovate?

Thu, 07 Apr 2011 03:53:19 -0400

When: Thursday, April 7, 12:30 PM
Where: CMC Athenaeum

Lunchtime talk at the CMC Athenaeum:
Weijian Shan, CEO, Pacific Alliance Group; Eric Li, Managing Partner, Chengwei Ventures; Shaomin Li, professor of management, Old Dominion University; Yasheng Huang, professor of international management, Sloan School, MIT, moderator;

Annenberg Speaker Series: Robert Bach

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 23:48:55 -0400

When: Tuesday, April 12, 5:30 PM
Where: Platt Green Room
Who: Robert Bach, retired Microsoft executive, former president of the Entertainment & Devices (E&D) Division at Microsoft Corp.

To R.S.V.P. or for more information, please call 909.621.8335 or e-mail valri_ulmer@hmc.edu.

Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:28:03 -0400

Estimate: In Two Years, Streaming TV Will Be An $800 Million Business for Netflix and Hulu

Microconsignment: The Microfinance Alternative

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 12:00:06 -0400

Microconsignment: The Microfinance Alternative:

Article by Global Envision

Jerry Held is executive chairman of Vertica and CEO of the Held...

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 19:00:07 -0400

Jerry Held is executive chairman of Vertica and CEO of the Held Consulting Group, a firm that provides strategic consulting to CEOs and senior executives of technology firms ranging from startups to very large organizations and private equity firms. This talk was given on March 1, 2011 as part of the Annenberg Leadership and Management Speaker Series 2011.

I attended the dinner and lecture for this event, though without my notepad. So it’s great that you can all watch it for yourself. Here’s what stood out to me.

Jerry Held started off with a categorization of his career into technical leadership, managerial leadership and advisory leadership. Technical leadership referred to his early career as an engineer, which transformed into managerial leadership as he began to take on more responsibility. Now, he sees himself in the role of advisory leadership as he sits in the board of several companies and has founded his own start-up to perform this task.

Other points that he stressed were the importance of vision alignment and how it is much more easily accomplished in a small company vs. a large one. However, he also stressed that there is nothing wrong with the slow growth and low risk of large companies, noting that tech mergers have a fairly high failure rate. From his experience in both large and small companies, he recommends starting in a large company in order to gain experience with established management and protocol structures before moving into small business.

I’m not sure if I completely agree with the need to start our in a large company. I think it is important to have experience leadership in a start-up, but I also think that fresh perspectives on business management can be very useful for coming up with outside-the-box solutions.—Erin Partlan

"No one ever asks if [the so-called] profitable businesses are sustainable. No one ever asks why some..."

Sun, 03 Apr 2011 10:00:06 -0400

“No one ever asks if [the so-called] profitable businesses are sustainable. No one ever asks why some of the most profitable businesses also make losses. To make your profits sustainable, you have to make your business socially sustainable. CSR [Corporate Social Responsibility] should not be peripheral, but central to the way companies function.”

- Dr. Harish Hande, SELCO-India

Bill Gates at Harvey Mudd and Pomona. I think the questions at...

Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:27:49 -0400

Bill Gates at Harvey Mudd and Pomona. I think the questions at the end were the best part of the presentation.